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Original Post Date: 2009-03-05 Time: 08:00:10 Posted By: Jan
By Botho Molosankwe
Three men accused of murdering Lucky Dube claim they were never read their rights.
One also claims he was hit with a sjambok, kicked and had his hand tied to a chair during interrogations by the police.
This emerged in Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday where the men are on trial for the murder of the reggae star during an attempted hijacking.
Addressing the court, Judge Seun Moshidi said the issue of rights was normally brought before court because accused people usually state that they were never read their rights.
However, Superintendent Aaron Kubheka, of the Booysens police station, testified that not only were Sfiso Mhlanga and Ludwe Gxowa read their rights, but they were read three times.
Mbuti Mabe’s rights were read to him four times, Kubheka said.
The police officer, with 18 years experience, said the trio was read their rights by the arresting officers.
Kubheka also did when he spoke to them, and again at Booysens police station. Mabe was also read his rights before he made a statement that he later disputed, saying he did not do it freely because he was tortured.
After a trial-within-a-trial, the judge ruled the statement be admitted as evidence. However, the judge yesterday questioned the number of times the accused were read their rights.
“It sounds like an overkill of an explanation of rights it sounds cooked,” he said to Kubheka, who responded by saying it was the standard procedure of explaining rights.
Besides not being read his rights, Gxowa claimed that after being taken to the police station after his arrest, officers sjambokked and kicked him until he sustained injuries to his mouth.
He claimed he was told to go and wash his face and taken back to a room where his hand was tied to a chair and the interrogation continued. He alleged that he was also told to make a statement, but did not sign it or give a thumbprint.
The trial was to continue on Thursday with a fingerprint expert expected to testify.